My personal experience as a lawyer with Linux

That's simply wrong. I've worked with small law offices in the past. The word processor is their tool to communicate with other lawyers and the government -- the very essence of their business. It inspires fierce loyalties and deep knowledge of bugs and workarounds. No other tool even comes close.

Excel handles any domain-specific stuff since the amount of data is typically tiny and, for better or for worse, everyone understands how to use a spreadsheet as a database.